Re: Self Empowerment

Dear Lori,

As often, the last question one raises sums up the answers to the questions one has. You have said it beautifully. The main precepts for expressing our spirituality are self-care, self-loving and fulfilling of our heart desires. This is when you are in alignment with yourself, of spirit, spiritual. There is notjing more to do or to be than that. If everyone did this, we would have no conflict nof fear on this planet, only love, peace and harmony.

The need to pray arises from lack, and wanting to have this lack removed by a power greater than us. Praying is not so much a spiritual practice as it is a cry for help by the soul. To pray for something shows that one is not happy or satisfied with oneself or one's present situation. Thus, the energy that goes into that kind or prayer is negative and feeds the lack. True prayer is based upon accepting the present moment and blessing it with gratitude. If people who pray to God for an outcome of some sort, they really don't have faith in God. If they had that faith, they would realize that God is always perfect, in step, on time, and with utomost precision. They would accept that the present moment, whatever it may entail, is perfect and ideal for that moment, a gift of God. Denying that gift or trying to manipulate it away with prayers implies that they feel God is not in charge, not good to them, not perfect, negligent, makes mistakes, not loving, all of which are figments of imagination.

True prayer is expressing gratitude of what has already occured. The gratitude is positive energy that attracts and increases more of that one is grateful for. This eliminates the need for wanting something one has not. Since everything that exists is energy first, by being grateful for having created something one desires (image) in one's mind, the chances that this imamgination comes true are very high. This is true spirituality, acting as spirit, being spirit, living spirit. Seeing God or Spirit ouside oneself is doubt and undermines the fuilfilment of one's desires. It is non-spiritual and the principal cause of suffering in life (I wrote about this in more detail in my book Lifting the Veil of Duality, ener-chi.com).

Your conscious mind can hold any information for no more than 25 seconds. Then it slips into the subconscious mind. Verbally expressing something you want in life merely makes it more clear to your conscious mind, but it doesn't change the underlying tendencies of the unconscious mind. These are controlled by th beliefs you hold. All beliefs are limiting. As long as we use beliefs to know and understand ourselves and the world, we experience limitation, and limitation instils fear. Our true self has no limiations and is therefore fearless. It does not require the crutches of beliefs that relate to our past experiences. All it needs is to be in the present moment, from moment to moment, carefree, like a river that keeps flowing because it knows the water keeps coming. The journey of spiritually ends when we finally let go of the need to believe. Trusting in one's own spirit is the same as trusting in God, mother earth, nature. It requires no words or statments. It is a matter of being with what is, for it is already perfect. If what happens seems to be negative, by being with it and accepting it, it is being healed and becomes positive and reveals its purpose in the large scheme of things.

Blessings,
Andreas Tweet